Andor's Trail

I have a lvl 11 player with atk ch 147 and atk dmg 4-8. When I try to hit a hardshell beetle, I get 0 HP on him. I pulled up the beetle info and the difficultly says impossible, did I miss something. I have another character lvl 20 and did not experience this problem. Help plz.

Is this happening with all the hardshell beetles, or only the one blocking the way into a pit on the north side of the road between Fallhaven and Vilegard? If it is the only in the pit, you need more attack damage and/or progress on one of the quests, and the "impossible" rating changes. If it is all the beetles, my guess would be you need more attack damage. Until then, avoid the beetles.

The beetles have a damage reduction level of 1, which means even if you hit them, they don't necessarily take damage from it. So yeah, leveling up your attack damage, and getting a weapon with a critical hit chance would probably help.

I never ran into "impossible" difficulty but thats probably because some of those maps weren't there yet when I was starting out.

It's on the road and in the pit. I have 50 for my health and a great sword, but I.don't have a.weapon that does critical damage. Should I go buy one? This was a new character I was making, so I went for building health and atk change and figured I would buy 2 atk dmg rings later. I do have good armor.

They have a damage resistant of 9

The difficulty rating of monsters change depending on both the players stats and the monsters. Regarding the hardshell beetles, as bloodydeamon stated, they have a damage reduction of 9. Therefore, if your character cannot do more than 9 damage on a single hit, they would be impossible to hurt for you. And thus, they get the Impossible difficulty rating. Hope that answers your question!

Thanks to everyone for your help. That's exactly what happened, I didn't have enough dmg atk to fight the hardshell beetles. Thanks to everyone for your help. Love this game.